Dummy caterpillars as a simple method to assess predation rates on invertebrates in a tropical agroecosystem

By Andy G. Howe, G. Lövei, G. Nachman. 2009

186 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e2474ff04700677b7a036f03577e98d7ca72e836

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In Ecology

1. R. Brandl
2. V. Novotný
3. Nina Farwig
4. D. Hochuli

In Insect Science

1. R. Brandl
2. V. Novotný
3. Kateřina Tvardíková

Citations in the corpus

• Ants as indicators of environmental change and ecosystem processes (2017, background): “Artificial caterpillars consisted of green-colored (to mimic palatable and undefended prey; see Howe et al., 2009), oil-based, and nontoxic plasticine (STAEDTLER ® Noris Club 8421).”
• Determining predator identity from attack marks left in model caterpillars: guidelines for best practice (2014, background): “It involves making prey from malleable, non-hardening modelling clay, deploying them in the field and then inferring predation from impressions left in the models (Howe et al., 2009).”
• Predation on exposed and leaf-rolling artificial caterpillars in tropical forests of Papua New Guinea (2012, background): “An extremely low predation rate of 0.03% d−1 was recorded on cotton fields in Uganda (Howe et al. 2009).”